Served With A Twist

Forty-three short stories that speak to us in ways that full-length novels cannot. They will touch us sharply, sometimes softly, sometimes with humor, other times with horror, but they always leave their mark and most of all, they entertain. More

Short stories speak to us in ways that full-length novels cannot. They sometimes touch us sharply, sometimes softly, sometimes with humor, other times with horror, but they always leave their mark.Attend a backwoods wedding ceremony that will tickle your funny bone. Join a murder scene that will make you smile.Follow a troubled soul who wanders into a motorcycle gang’s private party. Enter into the dark recesses of a murder’s mind.Encounter a lifetime criminal who wants out of a life of crime and can put major crime bosses away. He only wants to disappear...but can he?Meet a man in love with a woman who never smiles with a daughter who doesn’t exist.These stories and more, each with a twist, to take you from the ordinary to the unusual, from the common to the special, but most of all, to entertain.

Mort is a retired U.S. Air Force Officer who served as a Rescue and Survival technician teaching escape and evasion and survival techniques to air crew members; survived a tour of duty in Vietnam and barely survived two tours in the Pentagon as a computer systems action officer.

Mort was also an information technology consultant and a manager with a large international health care insurance company. He earned a Doctorate in Education at The Catholic University of America, received his Masters degree from National College of Education, and his Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University. He has been an adjunct professor of computer sciences for several universities in the Washington, DC area.

For 10 years, Mort and his wife, Susan, lived aboard "Irish Gold," a motor yacht berthed on the Potomac River. Mort was a volunteer with the Alexandria, Virginia Police Department and the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria.

Mort’s novel, CodeName: Snake, The Evil We Kill, a novel of revenge that takes place during WWII, won third prize in a national competition, and many of his short stories have won awards in national competitions. He has produced three more novels: Sting of the Geisha, an erotic story about a female serial killer; Retirement Policy, about the CIA, drugs, and murder; and Attack on Camp David, about terrorists attacking Camp David to kidnap the President's daughter and stop the peace process.

Now residing in Gold River, California, with their American Eskimo dogs, Yuki and Kori, he is busy working on several new novels and lots of short stories.